Graham High School - Steer Yearbook (Graham, TX)

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JUNIOR BOYS FIRST ROW: BILLY C. (Boney) ONEY SPENCER STREET PAT TIMS EDWIN SMITH BERT ALLEN MANN CHAS. WALSH BILLY JOE LEACH J. GLYN LOFI'IN SECOND ROW: HAROLD BLEVINS R. A. FISHER KYLE KERBOW BILLY EASIER JOHN HOCKADAY KENNETH MOBLEY WILLIAM (Bubbcr) ATWOOD DAVID NEWMAN BILLY J. HOLLAND THIRD ROW: JIMMY JENNINGS JOE NORRIS EUGENE HORTON ALLEN McCLESKEY RENO CLAYTON MONROE ROBERTSON LYNN LOFI'IN RAY DOWNEY FOURTH ROW: T. CLYDE HEFNER, JR. HAROLD ROBERTSON LLOYD MORTON GRADY WARE WEYMON BOX ALVA LEE HAWKINS VERNON HAMM JERRY BUTLER KENNE TH SEGARS FIFTH ROW: DON CAROL CHOATE CHARLES B. WALKER ROBERT McCLUSKEY, JR. BILLY PANKEY JIMMIE LARMOUR JAMES NORRED ROGER T. MARTIN BOBBY OATMAN BENNY WICKHAM EARL MAHONEY. BOB CUNNINGHAM

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SCHOOL HISTORY 1943-44 This is a war year, and this is a war book dedicated to students of Graham Senior High School who have gone to tire defense of their home and country. But to those of us. students and teachers, who are still in school this year has been doubly impor- tant in both doing what we could to help the war effort here at home, and m preparing to do our share when school is over. This school year is doubly important to all, therefore, and this Victor)’ Steer will, it is hoped, help us remember for years to come some of the things we shared and worked toward during the 1943-44 school season. For this is the year, more than any other, when the Allied cause swung from doubt to certain victory. One of the first things that was done when the school year opened and all the greetings and congratulations had been done with and the new students welcomed to the school, was to elect class officers. In looking back over the year it can now be said that the selection of these officers was wise in every case for thev have helped in many instances by putting forth every effort to bring success to their class enterprises. The officers selected are listed on another page so they w ill not be given again here. Suffice it to say, they have all done a good job and their respective classes should be proud of them. The football season opened when the Steers tangled with “Poly” and lost to them 19-0. The Steers then trounced Paschal 7-0. Mineral Wells took a one-sided licking at the hands of the Steers when we rolled up a score of thirty-three to nothing against them. Wichita Falls upset the Graham Steers' winning streak with a victory over us of 7-0. This was a clean, hard-fought game and a tough one to lose. Childress and Plectra both managed to win over the Steers in succession and it was not until after the Vernon game that the Steers got back in stride bv defeating Olney and Burk. Two of the Graham boys, W. C. and Donald Orr, made the All District second team, and Claude Davis received honorable mention. Eighteen Steers lettered during the season’s play and of these all but four will be with us during the coming year. The four men the team loses arc: Donald Orr, Hugh Blevins, Harold Ward, and 1’ate Simms. Die lettermen who will return to play next rear are: Bill) Pankey, Norman Stovall, Billy L. Ribblc, Claude Davis, avnc Rove, W. G. Orr, Reeves Morcn. Jasper Nunley, Charles Walsh, Garner Wilde, Bobby Tyler, Donald Sanders, Johnnie McClelland, and Jem Butler. The Quarterback Club, which had enthusiastically backed the Steers all during the season, wound up the football year with a big barbecue supper and dance for the football boys, band members, and the members of the Quarterback Club. It was really a grand affair and ranks high among the rear’s social events. Tire Quarterback Club had previously given a smaller barbecue for the players only. The players say they enjoyed this one a great deal too. One unusual event occured during the year which the students were glad to have happen but were sorry at the same time for the reason it happened. A mild “flu” epidemic lengthened the Christmas Holidays an extra week, and although the students hated to have people sick, they did welcome the holidavs. The Graham Steers had a very successful rear in basketball under Mr. Clifford’s coaching. The Steers only lost five games out of a total of thirteen and it seemed for a while they had a good chance of going on up in the district. At the last moment they were nudged out by Childress, one of the finalists in later State tournaments. The squad lettermen were: Pate Simms, Donald Orr. Harold Ward. Icrrv Butler. Lynn Loftin, Glyn Loftin. Johnny McClellan. Rav Downey, Wayland Oatman, and Garner Wilde. Four managers were also lettered from a staff of seven.